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Mostly a question of trust: My Life Journal collects data linked to you but declares no tracking. The sensitive items are location and user content. In total the label lists 3 data types; 32% of journal & diary apps we checked declare tracking.
My Life Journal privacy in one look
- 1Collects nothing
- 2Not linked
- 3Linked
- 4Tracks you
Built only from the developer's App Store label. It describes disclosure, not tested behaviour.
My Life Journal collects 3 data types tied to your identity but declares no tracking.
Did My Life Journal ask for something?
Pick the permission prompt you saw. We compare it with what My Life Journal's developer declared.
My Life Journal lists Location on its label, linked to you. Choose While Using and turn off Precise Location if the feature works without it.
My Life Journal lists User Content on its label, linked to you. Choose Limited Access and pick only the photos you want to share.
Contacts is not on My Life Journal's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
My Life Journal declares no tracking, so a tracking prompt would contradict its label. Decline it, and consider reporting the mismatch to Apple.
Health & Fitness is not on My Life Journal's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
A permission is what the app can reach on your iPhone; the label is what the developer says leaves it. They answer different questions.
What My Life Journal collects, explained
| Data type | What it covers | Where to limit it |
|---|---|---|
| LocationSensitiveLinked to you | Where your phone is, either precisely (street level) or approximately (city or area). | Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services: choose Never or While Using, and turn off Precise Location if the app does not need it. |
| User ContentSensitiveLinked to you | Messages, photos, videos, audio recordings, documents and support chats you create or upload. | Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos: choose Limited Access or None; review Microphone and Files access too. |
| Contact InfoLinked to you | Your name, email address, phone number or postal address. | Use Sign in with Apple with Hide My Email where offered, and check the app's account and marketing preferences. |
What My Life Journal's label means for you
My Life Journal's label has 3 types under “Data Linked to You”. A data type can appear in more than one section when it is used for different purposes — for example, identifiers used for both analytics and advertising.
My Life Journal declares no tracking, which means the developer says it does not combine your data with other companies' data for advertising or sell it to data brokers. The data linked to you — location, user content and contact info — is still tied to your identity, typically through an account, and is covered by the developer's privacy policy and retention rules.
The items that deserve the most attention are location and user content. Location history reveals home, work and routines. Precise location deserves the most scrutiny.
Journals collect your private thoughts, moods and often your location and photos. A lock screen inside the app is not the same as encryption of the synced entries. Check whether entries sync to the developer's server and whether that sync is end-to-end encrypted; export your journal regularly.
Among the 173 journal & diary apps in our snapshot with a label, 32% declare tracking, 54% collect data linked to you and 21% say they collect nothing. My Life Journal lists 3 data types, about the same as the average of 2.9 for this group.
Lifestyle apps cover family, home and personal organisation, and often combine location, contacts and photos in one place.
Settings to check for My Life Journal
- 1
Location
Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › My Life Journal. Choose While Using or Never, and switch off Precise Location if a city-level answer is enough.
- 2
Photos
Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos. Limited Access lets you pick exactly which pictures the app can see; Add Photos Only lets it save without reading your library.
- 3
Sign-in
When creating an account, Sign in with Apple can give the app a relay address from Hide My Email instead of your real one.
- 4
Lock the app
On iOS 18 and later, touch and hold the icon and choose Require Face ID. Anyone who picks up your unlocked phone then needs your face, fingerprint or passcode to open it.
- 5
Notifications
Settings › Notifications › My Life Journal › Show Previews: When Unlocked keeps message and account details off the Lock Screen.
Does My Life Journal track you?
There is no “Data Used to Track You” section on My Life Journal's label.
Does My Life Journal track you? Full answer and how to stop it →
Lock My Life Journal behind Face ID
- Find My Life Journal on your Home Screen or in App Library.
- Touch and hold the icon until the quick-actions menu opens.
- Tap Require Face ID (or Require Touch ID / Require Passcode, depending on your iPhone).
- Tap Require Face ID again to confirm. My Life Journal now asks for authentication every time it opens.
The lock is an iPhone feature, so it works whether or not My Life Journal has a passcode of its own. It does not change what the app sends to its developer.
About My Life Journal
| Developer | ELEVATED CAPITAL INC. |
| App Store category | Lifestyle (also Photo & Video) |
| Latest version | 1.38, released May 2026 |
| First released | March 2018 |
| Requires | iOS 12.0 or later |
| Size | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ |
| Languages | 2 (EN, ZH) |
| Bundle ID | com.mycircleblog |
The current version shipped in May 2026. That is recent enough that the label should reflect current practices, but check the App Store page again before relying on it.
What the label cannot tell you
- A label is self-reported. Apple publishes the developer's answers and can reject apps that misrepresent them, but it does not independently verify what My Life Journal sends.
- It does not say where data is stored, how long it is kept, whether it is encrypted, or which companies receive it. The privacy policy covers those points.
- Optional data counts: if a feature lets you add something (a profile photo, a phone number), the type is listed even if you never use the feature.
- Data handled only on your iPhone is not 'collected', so a no-collection label is compatible with an app that reads your files locally.
- Third-party sign-in, payment processors and SDKs are supposed to be included, but a label can lag behind a new version.
The question to ask My Life Journal's developer: Can anyone at the company read my entries?
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Your My Life Journal privacy checklist
Done. You have applied every control the label points to.
True or false?
- Right.Not quite.
False: there is no Data Used to Track You section on My Life Journal's label.
- Right.Not quite.
Labels are self-reported by developers. Apple can reject or remove apps that misrepresent practices, but it does not audit each label.
- Right.Not quite.
True: Location appears on its label.
- Right.Not quite.
It is collected and sent; the developer says it is de-identified rather than tied to your account or device.
- Right.Not quite.
Apple's rules require apps to work the same whether or not you allow tracking.